Glacier Park Rangers find themselves investigating yet another bear attack this season…this time on the Grinnell Glacier Trail, at Many Glacier. The trail is closed as the investigation continues.
We’re getting varying reports of exactly what happened, but it appears 2-groups of hikers in the immediate vicinity. While the Park Services is being mum, a FaceBook posting from one of the hikers on the trail at the time is about the best we can do. He says he was hiking up the Grinnell Glacier Trail new Lake Josephine when another hiker came running down the trail, yelling something about a bear attack up ahead. Devin Dufrene–the FaceBook poster, tells Daily Inter Lake Reporter Hailey Smalley, he called 9-1-1 using his cell phone to hit the emergency satellite connection. His group, he says, decided to head back down the trail when they ran into, what looked like a brown bear, heading up the trail. That bear, he says, was more curious than aggressive and didn’t bother them.
At this point, we have no information about that first group of hikers who encountered that first bear, nor do we know the extent of any injuries.
An earlier bear attack on the Mount Brown Trail resulted in the death of 33-year old Anthony Pollilo of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
